title: The common dementias: a pictorial review.
abstract: Imaging plays an important role in the diagnosis and management of dementia. This review covers the imaging features of the most common dementing illnesses: Alzheimer's disease (AD), vascular dementia (VaD), dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD). It describes typical findings on structural neuroimaging and discusses functional and molecular imaging techniques such as FDG PET, amyloid PET, magnetic resonance (MR) perfusion imaging, diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and functional MR imaging (fMRI).
authors.affiliation: Lysholm Department of Neuroradiology, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London, WC1N 3BG, UK, bhogalweb@aol.com.
authors.forename: Pervinder
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bhogal
authors.forename: Colin
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Mahoney
authors.forename: Sophie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Graeme-Baker
authors.forename: Amit
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Roy
authors.forename: Sachit
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Shah
authors.forename: Francesco
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Fraioli
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Cowley
authors.forename: Hans Rolf
authors.initials: HR
authors.lastname: Jäger
mesh_terms: D000544:Alzheimer Disease / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology; D001284:Atrophy / Q000473:pathology; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000473:pathology; D003704:Dementia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology*; D015140:Dementia, Vascular / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D056324:Diffusion Tensor Imaging; D005260:Female; D057180:Frontotemporal Dementia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D020961:Lewy Body Disease / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D059906:Neuroimaging / Q000379:methods*; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography